---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring social equity impact analysis in performance audits and legislative public hearings thereon."
description: "Requiring social equity impact analysis in performance audits and legislative public hearings thereon."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wa"
legislature: "Washington Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 5414"
citation: "Washington SB 5414 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hasegawa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3d74aa6-b2ef-4805-8fde-44bfa296dbab"
source_url: "https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5414&Year=2025&Initiative=false"
source_hash: "1934fb1d038a08900646e0a813d6c0f353499e9a8712c2b96852e2c162950540"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wa"]
---

# Washington SB 5414 (2025-2026) — Requiring social equity impact analysis in performance audits and legislative public hearings thereon.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5414.htm)
2. **Passed Legislature** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/Biennium/2025-26/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5414.PL.htm)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#6) — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading & Final Passage (#10) — **59–39** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hasegawa — primary (person)
- Nobles — cosponsor (person)
- Valdez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-22** First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Public hearing in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-02-07** Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections at 10:30 AM.
- **2025-02-07** SGTE - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-07** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-07** Minority; without recommendation. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-02-11** Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- **2025-02-26** Placed on second reading by Rules Committee. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04** Third reading, passed; yeas, 30; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06** First reading, referred to State Government & Tribal Relations. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** Public hearing in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-25** Executive action taken in the House Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations at 1:30 PM.
- **2025-03-25** SGOV - Majority; do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Minority; do not pass. `committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2025-03-28** Referred to Rules 2 Review. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Third reading, passed; yeas, 59; nays, 39; absent, 0; excused, 0. `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** President signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2025-04-17** Delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Chapter 135, 2025 Laws. `became-law`
- **2025-04-22** Effective date 7/27/2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3d74aa6-b2ef-4805-8fde-44bfa296dbab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Washington legislature records).